Nissan Motor Company Limited

Satoshi Okamoto

Noriyuki Abe

Norimasa Kishi

Koji Sato

Hisanori Ohara

Hiroshi Saito

An information providing center calculates an estimated traveling time to elapse before a vehicle arrives at a destination by using traveling information transmitted from an on-vehicle system and determines contents information to be provided to the on-vehicle system in conformance to the calculated traveling time. The information providing center prepares a program list containing the contents information that has been selected, information indicating the order in which the contents information is to be played and media information indicating how the contents information is to be obtained and transmits the program list to the on-vehicle system. The on-vehicle system obtains and plays the contents information as indicated in the transmitted program list.

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An apparatus provides information for a driver and passengers in a vehicle. If it is estimated that driving load is high, the apparatus stops outputting information. If it is estimated that driving load has been changed from high to low, the apparatus reads information from a storage unit and outputs the read information. If it is estimated that driving load is high, the apparatus stops outputting information so that the driver and passengers may miss no information, and if it is estimated that driving load is low, the apparatus provides information for the driver and passengers so that they may surely catch the information.

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Fujisawa, Japan

Satoshi Okamoto